I understand the rationale and I am happy for the authors and I think the distribution will be way better.

As a user I like to get out as soon as I click because I can trace back the link and I can do clipping or bookmark in my browser.

It seems like they changed the strategy and enhanced UX. Feels like now there would a lot of worthless traffic in the web

I’m just happy they got rid of the system web view and replaced it with the one which they can inject their own JavaScript into. Bonus points that it covers the thing I want to read and I can’t turn it off. Truly, a masterpiece of engineering from the guy whose entire schtick was coming up with was to boost engagement from kids.

That's precisely what Wechat is doing. Most chinese "mega apps" do this.

Elon absolutely on his track to copy this important feature [1]

The webview works as a traffic faucet. Elon can turn it on or off for every third-party site, you know, for "Internet safety".

My take:

Next step is X.com proprietary APIs inside the Webview, like payment and everything.

The ultimate goal is a "mini-app" framework that use PWA-like techs to run everything based on the Webview and circumvent Appstore.

And last a phone that runs the "mini-app" framework because why not, as an "AI edge node" like Elon recently proposed.

[1]: https://x.com/danmurrays/status/1683446630245187584

Since we're doing PSAs, isn't it also now just a completely broken platform on mobile for everyone who isn't logged in?

> Something went wrong, but don't fret - let's give it another shot.

This is all I've seen for literally years now. No real error, does not even say to login or install an app, just blames it on my privacy extensions (I don't actually have any) and offers a button to pointlessly try again. No big loss, but surprising! On the one hand, it's the only time big tech isn't engaged in obnoxious harassment, but it's also a conspicuously dumb oversight in the funnel

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What bugs me is the sheer number of people, and organisations, who still link to images and video or '1/20' long screeds on twitter, while the next article on their own site is bitching about how bad twatter/owner/politics etc is. Seriously if a site, blog, forum etc you know ever links to twitter then just stop interaction with them, they're lazy mofos need to do their own groundwork.

Does this mean an attacker can turn any impression into any GET request?